OlderAngelina Jolie Wigs Out in Green
New pictures of Angelina Jolie from the July 2008 issue of Vanity Fair have surfaced. (The green wig was Ms. Jolie’s idea! It’s also pictured in the background of this photo.)
The photos were taken Jan. 31, before everybody’s favorite humanitarian, mother, and sex goddess publicly announced that she was expecting twins in August. Here are some new quotes from her interview, where she lets us inside her celebrity bubble:
On why they named their daughter Shiloh: “It’s a biblical name,” she told me, “but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”
On how she plans on raising her kids religion-wise: “[My mother] was Catholic but also a child of the 60s. She stopped going to confession at one point because she was having sex before marriage. To me, she represented what religion should be. She never preached. If things didn’t make sense to her, she never just accepted it. I had Communion, but she never forced me to go to church. Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It’s a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That’s how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We’ll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We’ll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We’ll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.”
On Brad Pitt coming into her life unexpectedly: “After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn’t looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don’t see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.”
On her father Jon Voight and his film Coming Home, which he won the best-actor Oscar in 1979: “Actually. I’ve never seen Coming Home. Because that was when my father left my mom, and the woman who he cheated on her with is in the film.” (When rumors surfaced about Jolie and Pitt, who was then married to Aniston, Jolie denied them, saying, in essence, Look, this is what happened to my mother, so I could never do it to another woman.)
You can also read Angie’s full cover story at VanityFair.com. To see more pictures from this issue, click here.
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THIS IS WERE THE TRIANGLE STOPS.IT SUCKS TO FIND OUT THAT ANGELINA WASN’T THE REASON FOR THE DIVORCE DOESN’T IT.Jen fans wanted to believe that their marriage would have lasted if Brad had not met Angelina but its very clear that there was nothing that was going to keep them together.What Angelina gives is honesty and she started seeing Brad after the divorce.
THOSE PICTURES ARE THE HOTEST.SHE’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN HOLLWOOD.HOT HOT HOT
These haters are hilarious! How many more years are you gonna keep complaining. Angelina and Brad are together and they are gonna stay together.They are gonna keep F U C K I N G and popping out kids and you haters will still be here complaining..LLLLmmmAAooooooooOOOOO.
To all of those screaming photoshop, I know its just a haters way of saying that she is gorgeous so I am not mad at you.
Make sure you haters get a copy of Vanity Fair because i know you want it
150 level17 @ 06/02/2008 at 12:59 pm ,Could you be any more ignorant?
Angelina gets the hen’s foaming at the mouth doesn’t she?LMAO!!!!
micro: # 47: Obviously you did NOT read my post… I flat out stated that I was NOT bashing and that I ADMIRE Ange/Brad for a variety of reasons… I was ASKING how if these pics. were taken in January which was 2 months after that Nov. award show- how she could appear to be so skinny? And in your quick response back you took time to insult me, but NEVER answered my original ????
So, I am JUST ASKING again… maybe someone on here can be a bit more like Ms. Jolie and answer nicely? Hmmm… there’s a thought!
Well I enjoyed the article because I focus my attention on Angie quote not on the writer salt and pepper.
On being pregnant
“I love it,” the actress says of being pregnant. “It makes me feel like a woman.”
“I love it,” she told me, smiled, laughed, then said, “It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body”—she raised her hands as she said this, her fingers as long as those of a point guard, and made the squeezing motion commonly used to suggest fruit that is particularly ripe—“are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.
“Also,” she continued, dropping her voice, leaning in, “I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.”
I asked Jolie what kind of help she employs.
“We don’t ever have anybody spend the night,” she said. “We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and backgrounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher—wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.”
On marriage
. “People have made a lot out of it that we’re not,” she said, “but we both have been married before, and it’s very easy to get married, but it’s not easy to build a family and be parents together. And maybe we’ve done it backwards, but we certainly feel married.”
On how pregnant she is
“I don’t want to say,” she said, smiling sadly. “A few months. I only know, if I do say, people will start stressing on our due date.”
Why she made Wanted
“Because I had just done A Mighty Heart and was scheduled to do Changeling, which is about the kidnapping of a child. And I had lost my mom. And I knew I was in this odd, fuzzy state going from one loss and kidnapping to another loss and kidnapping. Then Wanted came along. It’s about being physical and jumping and running and being violent, and instinctively I knew I needed to do that.”
On Brad
“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn’t looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don’t see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.”
On Brad passion
“He just has an eye for it,” she said. “You hear people talk about design or buildings, and assume, especially when somebody has another career, ‘Oh, that’s a hobby.’ Like somebody coming into money appreciating Picasso. But I have seen him design, with his partners, everything from hotels to studios. Or in New Orleans, with other architects, re-doing a shotgun house with green architecture, bringing light in, angles of the sun in summer and winter, how that would affect the rooms. He’s taught me so much about the homes we live in.”
On paparazzi or tabloid
“It’s our media,” she said. “People always slow down for a train wreck. It’s like junk food. If you don’t feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don’t understand why it’s there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.
“In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.”
On Parenting
“is how my mom raised me, which is to figure out who I was and try to enhance my individual personality and not get in the way of it.
“But I can really discipline the kids when I need to.”
On Kids
I asked if there is a special bond between a mother and a child she has carried as opposed to a child she has adopted. She said, “No,” thought a moment, then added, “I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”
Jolie has children from three continents—I asked if this was intentional.
“Yeah, absolutely intentional,” she said. “When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other.
“I look at Shiloh—because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little—and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.”
On adoption of Maddox
“A nurse came with Maddox and left 10 minutes after handing him over,” she said. “I stared at this little guy. I didn’t know what to do. I called my mom. I remember saying, ‘Do kids have 2 or 10 bottles a day? I’m at a loss.’ I had never babysat, let alone … ”
About Shiloh
“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born,” she said. “I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing. We had wonderful doctors and nurses. It was lovely, very personal, all three in this sweet room. We had an American doctor with us, who had met the Namibian doctors, and they worked in tandem because it was a C-section and my first and we didn’t know the country. He spent a few weeks with us. There was only one pediatrician in town, and one anesthesiologist, who had to come in for that—you have to plan it.”
“Where does the name Shiloh come from?,” I asked.
“It’s a biblical name,” she told me, “but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”
She spoke about religion—her mother’s religion, how she planned to raise her own kids. “[My mother] was Catholic but also a child of the 60s,” said Jolie. “She stopped going to confession at one point because she was having sex before marriage. To me, she represented what religion should be. She never preached. If things didn’t make sense to her, she never just accepted it. I had Communion, but she never forced me to go to church.
“Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It’s a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That’s how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We’ll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We’ll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We’ll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.”
On her late mother
As we spoke, the conversation kept cycling back to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who neglected her own acting career—she had studied at Strasberg—to raise her children, James and Angelina. She died in January 2007, of ovarian and breast cancer. She was 56 and had been sick for eight years. “And in those years,” said Jolie, “she met all my children, helped me be a mom, helped me grow into a better woman, and taught me about dying.”
Angelina’s mother, who, in the absence of Angelina’s father, became her compass and lodestar, was the unacknowledged presence at the table. The more Jolie spoke, the more certain this presence became. “When [my mother] passed, I realized that somebody who lives life with that kind of dedication to their family is the most noble,” she said. “I was aware of it growing up. I admired her. And I loved her. But in her passing she reminded me what matters. And what’s most fun—to put yourself aside for these other little people you’re raising.”
Jolie could not talk long about her mother without filling up and spilling over, without her voice creaking, without tears, real tears, flowing down her cheeks. “Mad always knew my mom was sick,” said Jolie. “So when it happened, I sat him down and I told him how some people believe there’s a heaven where everybody goes and is together again. And they believe it’s very white and beautiful. And some believe—he’d just seen Casper—there are ghosts who are people and they are always around. And some believe it’s a long peaceful sleep. When I told him, and I was crying, ‘Grand-mère died today, we won’t be able to see her anymore, but she’ll always be around,’ he said, ‘Like she’s here now? Like she’s in that chair?’ And I said, ‘Well, I suppose she could be.’ And he accepted it. It’s funny. It’s like we teach kids the things that we want to believe. Then we see that they have such beautiful faith and it helps them go to bed and we’re in the other room not sleeping well.”
Jolie was crying when she said this.
“I had to be responsible for getting the morgue to pick her body up,” said Jolie. “She was in Cedars [Sinai, in Los Angeles]. All I had to do is remind myself that she’s my best girlfriend and she’s not in any more pain. I’m so happy for her. As much as I miss her, I’m a good enough friend not to have wanted her to stay in pain any longer.”
Jolie stood up. “I have to use the bathroom,” she said. “It’s a great thing about being pregnant—you don’t need excuses to pee, or to eat.”
On her father
When I asked Jolie about her father, she said, “We’ve decided not to be public about our relationship.”
Then: “I will say we have spoken … and hadn’t spoken for six and a half years. Which is good. Or it needed to happen.”
Then: “We don’t really have a relationship, but we’re in contact. And wish each other well.”
Then: “I think we’ve realized there’s been too much discussion. Him discussing me publicly. I’ve had to comment on him. I think it’s best that, if we try to have any relationship in the future, we do it quietly.”
On Kids
I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.
“Artists raise their kids differently,” she said. “We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”
On refuges
“I traveled to Cambodia for the first Tomb Raider,” she told me. “I got to this country and expected broken, angry people, and found smiling, kind, warm people. We were doing one shot, and they said, ‘Don’t move to the side, because there are mines over there.’ I’d go to the market and see the land-mine victims. That was one step in realizing there was so much of the world I was blind to.”
On Brad
“This was actually one of the things that brought us together,” she told me. “Though he wasn’t as publicly active, I found him to be very aware of the world, very curious, very compassionate. In his private way, he had been doing a lot. When we met, we realized our common goals were that we both wanted to be involved in the world and see what we could do. We have similar interests but different approaches. He’s more involved in rebuilding New Orleans, environmental issues, green sustainability. I am more refugees. But when it comes to common goals—orphans, orphans’ rights, children—we support each other. It brings us together and makes our relationship work.”
On gossip or tabloid
“I would never do that,” she said, “because I have good friends I would be reading about and I don’t want it even in my head … a negative fairy tale about somebody I like. I don’t want it in my thoughts. I owe it to them not to pay attention. I know it’s not true. Over 95 percent of what’s said about us is entirely untrue.”
You can not blame the haters. Just look at the pictures that JJ has recently posted of their idol. She is so UUUUUGGGLLL ..never mind.
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YOU ARE A NINCOMPOOP, DISGUSTING VILE PIECE OF CACA!!!!!
# 26 Frenchy @ 06/02/2008 at 11:12 am
That picture is funny. It’s like she’s going to a party.
The interveiw was not that bad but there was a lot of rehashing of the past. Angelina is not a newcomer. It’s like you have to sift through all the background stuff to pick out the new stuff.
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Too much rehashing the past, VF’s usually stumping for poor, pitiful X and how Angie “stole” Brad…and not worth $7 or whatever the mag costs. I’m sure the Fanistons will be waiting to compare the sales of Angie’s cover with X’s 2005 Bullshit Issue…so I’ll go do my part and buy a copy for that reason alone! Hell…if it will help the issue outsell X’s…I’m by 10 copies of the sucker.
Angie is so gorgeous. I love the way she talked about Brad, her mom and her children.
Ha! @ 06/02/2008 at 12:42 pm to “….”
What she said here, coupled with the interviews she did around the time just before it was made public that they hooked up where she said she would never bring a man into Maddox’s life unless he was going to be there permanently. Not long after that, boom, we have pictures of Angelina and Brad with Maddox playing on a beach in Africa.
I never said she “stole him”nor did I imply it, but if you think that getting involved with someone in ANY SENSE of the word while either you or they are still married is perfectly fine, that’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it. I don’t agree. Sorry. But, like I said, their relationship doesn’t affect any of the people on these threads, including me. I just think it’s funny how desperate people are to believe that there was nothing fishy about the way they started their relationship.
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You’re arguing on TECHNICALITY . Those pictures of them at the African beach were taken in April, 2005. Remember they announced the separation in January 2005, and filed the divorce papers in March 2005.
1) Jen has already moved out of the house after they announced the separation. So, in her mind, the marriage was finished. Each party could do whatever he/she wants. I just dont understand why Jen and those Jen fans are so outraged. Even Walter Scott from Parade reported Jen moved out of the house.
Walter Scott (from Parade )
Published: February 13, 2005
Q Now that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt have gone their separate ways, who’ll get their $13 million Beverly Hills mansion? —Natalie Young, Los Angeles, Calif.
A Maybe neither of them. Renovating that mansion (with its baby nursery) was a two-year labor of love for Pitt, 41, who dreamed of raising a family there. Aniston, 36, reportedly has moved out already. Who knows? Brad may feel the same way about a place with such sad memories. He still has a Hollywood Hills house that Jen never liked.
2) Even in Jen’s VF interview which was interviewed in June 2005, Jen also said they were divorced when discussing the W photo shoots with Leslie Bennett.
The following is the excerpt from VF
……. But it’s not my life,” she says. “He makes his choices. He can do—whatever. We’re divorced, and you can see why.”
3) When Jen filed the papers in March 2005, she asked the court to restore her maiden name.
4) Also, Jen was already scheming on Orlando Bloom in the 2004 Cannes pictures because she knew her marriage was coming to an end.
5) Jen has been dating Vince since the time she started filming The Break Up.
Finally, Brad and Jen are the two parties in this divorce. They are the one who decided when it’s considered “free to do whatever”, NOT YOU.
zahara is african-american so of course she will celebrate kwanzaa. she was born in africa but her parents are american and she probably has an american citizenship so she is technically in the true sense of the word african-american. and shiloh can celebrate christmas and all the millions of other “white holidays”!
level17 @ 06/02/2008 at 1:01 pm
Angelina is starting to resemble Nicole Kidman. Angelina will become the new queen of botox. The girl cant even move her face.
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Look at the new pictures of Maniston she looks like Priscilla Presley with all the fillers, botox, silicone whatever on her face and still she’s fugly!!
The QUEEN of botox is BUTTAFACE Maniston!!!
Why should Jennifer Aniston eat these photos, # 1? And why do you call her UW? That’s the woman that Brad Pitt spent 7 years of his life with and she was as ugly as you think she is, then he was blind. When he said he wanted out, she let him go without any problem, so he could be with the woman he loved. Quite noble of someone who could afford to be bitter and obstructive, don’t you think?
How old are you, by the way?
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We dont care what you think. You dont represent the majority.
The whole world loves Shi. That’s all that matter.
Hello fellow JP fans!
All the photoshoot in VF are sooo beautiful esp.Angie in black,i love it ! I for sure will a buy a copy!Thank you all for the pics.and videos links!
More love and blessings to the JoliePitt!
Just like PT said…too much rehashing the past, VF’s same old poor Jennifer blah blah.. The pictures of Angie are gorgeous though.
# 36 Frenchy @ 06/02/2008 at 11:20 am
Hanna @ 06/02/2008 at 11:10 am SO JON VOIGHT CHEATED ON MARCHELINE BERTRAND WITH JANE FONDA? In “Coming Home”,
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Did she say that?
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Last night before i went to bed I posted something about the Jane Fonda rumor, but others were saying it was another actress - Stacy Pickern? - who had a bit part in the movie. She may have been a long-term affair, but from what I understand Fonda & Voight DEFINITELY did the nasty during the making of that movie. Jane was a hit-it-and-run kinda gal, so it may have been once or twice and not a long-standing affair. JV was such a ho that he was probably dangling a few women at a time.
level17 @ 06/02/2008 at 12:59 pm
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Take it up with your mother for giving you that name, you piece of loose merde! But I mean taking her first look at you when you were born, can you blame her?
time for level17 to be outed for her mediocre understanding and comments, could it be very poor . oh guys, pls. hit the abuse button , so she can change to another stupid name and make another sensational mediocre comments.
# 43 gab @ 06/02/2008 at 11:26 am
Shiloh Baptist - The name that she used to go by when Brad used to call her when she stayed at hotels?
- sounds to me like she is referring to a time he shouldn’t have been calling her. Especially because she is speaking in past tense - at a time in the past that Brad had been calling.
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Ya know…they didn’t get together on January 8, 2005, the day after Brad left X on the curb. Brad had to do A LOT of chasing…Angie was traveling quite a bit on UNHCR biz and was out of the US until the end of January/early February. Hellz yeah he called her…repeatedly and often!
I don’t care much for the interview…… I am wondering if the day will ever come when a journalist writes a piece about her without rehashing the past, mentioning the X and actually asking her intelligent questions about the things that are relevant in her life.
As for the pictures, The one in the black wig is my favorite of the bunch.
sue @ 06/02/2008 at 1:00 pm Sorry I have to come back and apologies if I have to mention this. I know everyone had seen the latest photo of JA and JM ( in the car). I think that was the ugliest photo I have ever seen of her. No need to elaborate but what a pity this woman has become. No no I must not compare it would be a great great mistake.
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It’s because of the botox boomerang effects.
Aniston’s skin is tight (through muliple plastic surgeries and serial botox injections on a regular basis), dried up because of the extra suntanning and old because of both the sun and cigarettes.
Whenever the botox effects evaporate, her true ugly washed up self appears with a vengeance..see her neck…you can’t hide old-looking in the neck area, there is no plastic surgeries there.
She looks even more pathetic and old besides the Peeboy because he has a lot more fresh skin and has more meat around his facial bones and lips which makes him look like an old teen.
These people come here to Angelina’s thread and then they see how Angelina is beautiful and loved by Brad and children and us fans,and they get so ugly on the inside like their Souls are Black,Jealousy is a illness of the Mind .All hens trying to drag this lovely lady down it won’t work because Angie and Brad have good karma meaning good souls.Hens and jenn and john are fighting loosing battle.But i would be upset, to see anyone with that ugly creep John Mayer .But i’m glad it’s Jenn, if that is the kind of man, she wants,jenn will learn a hard lesson from this guy.Can you wonder how it would feel to wake up next to this ugly guy,and then has his fugly hands on you after perez hilton.yuk the slobbers the thought makes me want to throw up.
I think some of these haters need to be reminded that photos popped up of Jen and Vince kissing at a hotel balcony before we saw the photos of Brad/Angelina with Mad on the Kenya beach.
I don’t think Angelina looks skinny in these photos or the ones in November. She looks great. In some of the photos , you do see a baby bump.
Her love for Brad is beautiful to watch,notice when she talks about architecture,she says she has learned so much from Brad.She supports Brad,she wants good things for him whereas Jen hated Brad’s love for architecture and didn’t support him at allBrad knows that he’s lucky to have Angelina and I think that is why he’s always by her side.
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